Today's News

The Las Vegas City Council recently gave a new two-year contract to the community’s ambulance provider, Superior Ambulance.

But the city, by its own admission, hasn’t closely monitored the company’s performance for such details as response times. One of the reasons, Fire Chief Phil Mares said, was that Superior apparently had problems getting data from the city’s police dispatchers.

District 2-3A, in which Robertson and West Las Vegas compete, has undergone a major change in the offseason as part of a statewide realignment by the New Mexico Activities Association, the governing body overseeing high school athletics and other extracurricular activities in the state.

Highlands University officials say they are facing the same budgetary struggles as other state agencies. But they say they’ve been working on ways to deal with the situation.

Highlands University President Jim Fries said the school is expecting a 3.2 percent cut, which is the level that state officials have been warning.

Fries said the reduction of state money would begin in September. He read a memo from state officials that said if future budgetary forecasts improve, budgets could be adjusted upward. The memo also said budgets could be reduced.

The executive director of Las Vegas’ main economic development group is planning to step down, but he’s not sure when that’ll happen.

Roberto Rios, director of the Las Vegas-San Miguel Economic Development Corporation, confirmed to the City Council recently that because of personal issues, he would have to leave his position. He has held the job for 13 months.

He said that given the bad state of the economy, he said it may take some time to find another job, so he may still be at EDC for a while.

Almost three years ago, Highlands University applied for six low-powered FM radio stations. One of those would include a station for the university’s foundation.

President Jim Fries said recently that the foundation’s radio station would be in Romeroville, southwest of Las Vegas. The university currently operates KDEP-FM, which is across the street from Ilfeld Auditorium.

It’s been a long two years, starting with some terrible assaults in a football camp outside of town and culminating, last week, in the sentencing of the leader of the assaults. The disposition of Michael Gallegos’ case, the last of six to have run their course through the judicial system, brings an element of closure. But not completely — parents of the victims have filed suit against current and former school officials, which means court cases and press coverage will continue.